Historical Events in 1963 (Part 2)

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• Jun 17 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
• Jun 17 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
• Jun 18 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school to protest de facto segregation
• Jun 19 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
• Jun 19 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
• Jun 19 Greek government of Pipinolis forms
• Jun 19 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
• Jun 20 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
• Jun 20 US & USSR agree to set up a "Hot Line"

• Jun 23 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Maple Bluff CC: Mickey Wright defends title by 9 shots from Kathy Whitworth for her 10th major championship
• Jun 23 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
• Jun 23 The Detroit March to Freedom occurs with 125,000 people participating, the largest civil rights demonstration in America up to that point

• Jun 24 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
• Jun 24 Levi Eshkol forms 11th Israeli government
• Jun 24 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
• Jun 25 Curnick Ndlovu, South African worker's union leader and African National Congress Leader, is arrested for acts of sabotage
• Jun 25 Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
• Jun 25 JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
• Jun 26 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
• Jun 26 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
• Jun 26 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin
• Jun 27 Billy J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon-McCartney song "I Call Your Name"
• Jun 27 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but teammate centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games
• Jun 27 US President John F. Kennedy spend his 1st full day in Ireland
• Jun 27 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth, flying in X-15 rocket powered aircraft, reaches altitude 285,000 feet (86,868 meters)
• Jun 28 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru

• Jun 29 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts
• Jun 29 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
• Jun 30 Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo
• Jun 30 International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies
• Jul 1 The Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You"
• Jul 1 US President JFK arrives in Rome
• Jul 1 ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail

• Jul 3 In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
• Jul 5 1st Beatles' tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon's cover of "From Me to You" at no. 87
• Jul 6 South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested
• Jul 8 Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland
• Jul 8 US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
• Jul 9 Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
• Jul 11 South-African ANC members Walter Sisulu, Andrew Mlangeni and Govan Mbeki arrested
• Jul 13 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last MLB game at 43
• Jul 13 Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft
• Jul 15 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting

• Jul 16 Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)

• Jul 17 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
• Jul 18 Failed military coup in Syria
• Jul 18 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
• Jul 19 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
• Jul 20 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
• Jul 20 Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand
• Jul 20 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ

• Jul 22 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule
• Jul 24 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• Jul 24 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
• Jul 25 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
• Jul 25 US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty
• Jul 26 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
• Jul 26 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
• Jul 26 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
• Jul 27 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• Jul 27 General Amin al-Hafez becomes President of Syria

• Jul 31 Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina
• Jul 31 MLB Cleveland Indians ties record of 4 consecutive home runs to beat California Angels, 9-5; Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona and Larry Brown all go deep off Paul Foytack in 6th inning
• Aug 1 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
• Aug 1 Germany FR annexes Elten village
• Aug 1 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 2 30th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17, 65,000 at Soldier Field
• Aug 3 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
• Aug 3 Warner Bros. Records releases single of Allan Sherman's novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)", set to music of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from his 1876 opera "La Gioconda"
• Aug 5 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty

• Aug 6 Philadelphia NBA franchise changes name from 'Nationals' to the '76ers', based on US Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776

• Aug 8 Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)
• Aug 8 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie", radio stations label it obscene
• Aug 8 Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ
• Aug 9 Britains rock TV show "Ready Steady Go", premieres
• Aug 9 NY Met pitcher Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends with a complete game 7–3 win over the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds, NYC
• Aug 11 Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa
• Aug 11 Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
• Aug 12 Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization

• Aug 13 Dave DeBusschere pitches a shutout against the Cleveland Indians
• Aug 13 US Customs agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas

• Aug 15 Fulbert Youlou resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville
• Aug 16 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
• Aug 17 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
• Aug 17 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief

• Aug 19 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City, OKlahoma
• Aug 21 Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
• Aug 21 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
• Aug 22 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles)
• Aug 23 Beatles release single "She Loves You" in the UK
• Aug 23 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
• Aug 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 24 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
• Aug 24 24th Venice Film Festival: "Hands Over the City" directed by Francesco Rosi wins Golden Lion
• Aug 24 John Pennel is first person to pole-vault 17'
• Aug 25 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
• Aug 26 West Indies beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
• Aug 28 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens

• Aug 30 Compact audio cassette first introduced by Philips at the Radio Exhibition in Berlin, Germany [1]
• Aug 30 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.

• Sep 1 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
• Sep 1 Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff

• Sep 2 CBS expands "CBS Evening News" program, anchored by Walter Conkrite, from 15 to 30 minutes
• Sep 4 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board
• Sep 6 Historian Lee Allen says Cleveland Indians - Washington Senators game is 100,000th in Major League Baseball history

• Sep 6 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded at of the University of Strasbourg, France
• Sep 7 American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday
• Sep 7 Two-building Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is officially opened
• Sep 7 WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Sep 8 Algerian population accepts constitution
• Sep 8 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys in Venezuela
• Sep 8 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 x 20-win seasons

• Sep 9 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
• Sep 9 NBC expands "The Huntley–Brinkley Report", their evening television news program, from 15 to 30 minutes
• Sep 10 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama
• Sep 10 Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
• Sep 10 Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
• Sep 11 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
• Sep 12 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 14 Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
• Sep 15 Ahmed Ben Bella is elected as first president of the newly independent Algeria
• Sep 15 Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty, & Jesús - appear in San Francisco Giants outfield for 1 inning in a 13-5 win over Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
• Sep 15 Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls

• Sep 15 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 16 "The Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV

• Sep 16 WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 17 "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen premieres on ABC TV
• Sep 17 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
• Sep 18 Final MLB game at Polo Grounds, New York City; 1,752 see Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets 5-1
• Sep 18 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
• Sep 19 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Sep 20 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
• Sep 22 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
• Sep 23 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
• Sep 23 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 24 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
• Sep 24 US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing
• Sep 26 1st edition of NYC Review of Books

• Sep 27 At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
• Sep 27 Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cuban consulate in Mexico City, seeking a visa
• Sep 28 "King Leonardo" cartoon last airs on NBC-TV
• Sep 28 "Little Deuce Coupe" single by The Beach Boys peaks at #15

• Sep 28 "Nick Teen & Al K. Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95
• Sep 28 "Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts, a one-hit wonder from the Bronx, NYC, peaks at #2
• Sep 28 "Shari Lewis Show" last airs on NBC-TV
• Sep 28 "Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62

• Sep 28 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
• Sep 28 Novelty song "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells, from Villas, New Jersey, peaks at #16
• Sep 28 NYC DJ "Murray The K" plays The Beatles "She Loves You" on the radio
• Sep 29 "My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV

• Sep 29 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opened in Rome by Pope Paul
• Sep 29 Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th total hits (475 HRs)
• Sep 29 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game

• Sep 30 56th Postmaster General: John A. Gronouski of Wisconsin takes office
• Oct 1 Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic

• Oct 3 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
• Oct 4 -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
• Oct 4 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
• Oct 5 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
• Oct 5 Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
• Oct 6 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
• Oct 7 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
• Oct 7 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
• Oct 7 JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
• Oct 7 The Rolling Stones record the Lennon-McCartney song "I Wanna Be Your Man" at Kingsway Sound Studio in London
• Oct 8 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

• Oct 9 French air force gets first nuclear weapons

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